I have received several kind Letters from my beloved Friend, all of which gave me great Pleasure as they inform’d me of your Welfare. The Memory of your Friendship, and of the happy Hours I have pass’d in your sweet Society at Sanois, has often made me regret the Distance that makes our ever meeting again impossible. I wrote a few Lines to you last Year, and sent them under Cover to M. St. Jean de Crevecoeur, believing him then in France, but he arrived here soon after. I hope however that my Letter may have reach’d you; for as I grow older, I find Writing more painful, and I never have been more burthen’d with Business than since my Return. This however will cease in a great degree with the third and last Year of my Presidentship, of which near four Months are now spent. The Accounts I have heard of the Misunderstandings and Troubles that have arisen in the Government of that dear Country, in which I pass’d nine of the happiest Years of my Life, gave me a great deal of Pain; but I hope all will tend to its Good in the End. We have been labouring here to establish a new Form of Federal Government for all the United States, and there is a Probability of its being adopted and carried into Execution, tho’ it meets with a good deal of Opposition, it being difficult to reconcile and accommodate so many different and jarring Interests. If the Project succeeds our Government will be more energetic, and we shall be in a better condition of being serviceable to our Friends on any future Occasion. Adieu ma chere et toujours aimable Amie, and believe me ever Yours most affectionately